[ private message to Kairi ]
You doing alright?
[ The video feed snaps on just in time to catch the tail end of Lightning's pointing. The camera follows her arm to a pair of riolu, facing off against a stantler. It's a misty morning on Route 36, and the two puppies look like black blots, dodging the sweep of the bigger pokémon horns.
The smaller of the pair backflips out of the way as the bigger one--presumably the male--unleashes a Screech; the stantler backs away, stunned. The smaller one frog-leaps over the other's back, using his shoulders as a springboard to jump over and grab the stantler's horns, hoisting herself onto the reindeer's head, where she Rock Smashes him between the eyes. Down he goes.
Lightning looks pretty pleased; she moves over to pet her riolu, still in her sweats from the earlier spar with Leon. Leon himself is still behind the camera, but there's a quiet congratulations on a job well done from him. The riolus share a pleased look--Sen far more enthusiastic about his trainer's praise than Strike, who's trying to look bored, despite her secret glee. She's the first to start glowing.
There's a moment of surprise all around before the glow captures Sen, too, and soon two lucarios are standing there, staring at each other in surprise. Strike grins, moving close enough to Sen to show everyone watching that she is, in fact, about an inch and a half taller.
Leon chuckles, and the feet cuts. ]